5:18 PM,
Mar. 26, 2013

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Delaware County officials pretty much emptied the county's piggy bank on Tuesday.

After hearing - once again - that county government doesn't have enough funds to operate otherwise, county council members voted to take all but $50,000 from the county's $1.4 million rainy day fund. The decision came only a couple of weeks after the last time council borrowed $1.5 million from the same fund.

The county's fiscal body - with the exception of new member Scott Alexander - voted to borrow the rainy day funds after hearing that the county had a little more than $100,000 left in the general fund after the ...